Paula Yoo

America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz.

Describes the life of of Sammy Lee, a Korean American, who overcame prejudice to become an Olympic gold medalist and successfully completed medical school. This inspirational true story tells how Sammy Lee, a Korean American, overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver.